Community & Alumni

Study and technology

Today technology-based resources are an important part of studying at Charles Darwin University (CDU). Many library resources are online, email is used to communicate with students and CDU also uses BlackboardLearn also known as Learnline as its online study environment.

With this in mind, it is important to assess your computer skills to use the types of resources required during your studies.

Are you computer ready?

The computer skills you need will need include:

basic keyboarding skills and reasonable typing speed

basic word-processing, including use of tables, tabs, page numbering and spell-checking

understand the key features of a web browser: name, version, bookmarks and multiple windows